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Author: Brent J. Aucoin
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0817319131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Goode Jones of Alabama is the first comprehensive biography of a key Alabama politician and federal jurist whose life and times embody the conflicts and transformations in the Deep South between the Civil War and World War I.
Author: Paul McWhorter Pruitt (Jr.)
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010-07-20
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0817356010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama. Most of the subjects of these essays accepted the fundamental values of nineteenth and early twentieth century white southern society; and all believed, or came to believe, in the transforming power of law. As a starting point in creating the groundwork of genuine civility and progress in the state, these reformers insisted on equal treatment and due process in elections, allocation of resources, and legal proceedings. To an educator like Julia Tutwiler or a clergyman like James F. Smith, due process was a question of simple fairness or Christian principle. To lawyers like Benjamin F. Porter, Thomas Goode Jones, or Henry D. Clayton, devotion to due process was part of the true religion of the common law. To a former Populist radical like Joseph C. Manning, due process and a free ballot were requisites for the transformation of society.
Author: Brent J. Aucoin
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2007-08-01
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1610753461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Rift in the Clouds chronicles the efforts of three white southern federal judges to protect the civil rights of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, when few in the American legal community were willing to do so. Jacob Treiber of Arkansas, Emory Speer of Georgia, and Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama challenged the Supreme Court's reading of the Reconstruction amendments that were passed in an attempt to make disfranchised and exploited African Americans equal citizens of the United States. These unpopular white southerners, two of whom who had served in the Confederate Army and had themselves helped to bring Reconstruction to an end in their states, asserted that the amendments not only established black equality, but authorized the government to protect blacks. Although their rulings won few immediate gains for blacks and were overturned by the Supreme Court, their legal arguments would be resurrected, and meet with greater success, over half a century later during the civil rights movement.
Author: Kathy Roberts Forde
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 0252053044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the American Historical Association’s 2022 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize. White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic ideals. Journalism and Jim Crow centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the rise of the Jim Crow South. The contributors explore the leading role of the white press in constructing an anti-democratic society by promoting and supporting not only lynching and convict labor but also coordinated campaigns of violence and fraud that disenfranchised Black voters. They also examine the Black press’s parallel fight for a multiracial democracy of equality, justice, and opportunity for all—a losing battle with tragic consequences for the American experiment. Original and revelatory, Journalism and Jim Crow opens up new ways of thinking about the complicated relationship between journalism and power in American democracy. Contributors: Sid Bedingfield, Bryan Bowman, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Kathy Roberts Forde, Robert Greene II, Kristin L. Gustafson, D'Weston Haywood, Blair LM Kelley, and Razvan Sibii
Author: Booker T Washington
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9780252006500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe memoirs and accounts of the Black educator are presented with letters, speeches, personal documents, and other writings reflecting his life and career.
Author: Robert Jefferson Norrell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-01-19
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9780674032118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a biography of the controversial African American leader, Booker T. Washington, and the broad contexts in which he worked. It illuminates not only his mission and achievement but also the man himself.
Author: Albert Burton Moore
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 1586
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 442
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaret Anne Barnes
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780865546134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriter Barnes tells the story of a corrupt, crime-ridden city, examining events that unfolded during 1916-1955. Phenix City had been a 19th-century refuge from law enforcement for 120 years until three men in succession challenged the status quo. To reconstruct the story the author draws on notes and private papers of the principals and investigators; depositions, trial transcripts, and court records; daily newspaper coverage; and transcripts of wire-tapped recordings of the city's gamblers and politicians. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Frederick Adams Virkus
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 650
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